1906] | The eruciform brooches of Norway. 141 
In association with a silver brooch of almost the same cha- 
racter as fig. 170 and in a locality not very distant from the finding 
place of this brooeh were found two erueiform brooches, one very 
different from the other in respect to form and dimensions, but 
both of them showing features which indicate the late stage of de- 
velopment. The three brooches are shown here as figs. 171——173.%) 
A gold bracteate from the grave (tig. 174) is also of importance 
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for the fixing of the date; as the representations upon it are very 
distinetly executed, we must consider it as one of the earlier brac- 
teates of this sort. This find must therefore also be attributed to 
the first part of the 6th cent. The larger eruciform brooch of this 
) Tveitane, Brunlanes pgd. Larvik. C. 11220—36. Ab. 1882, p. 173, pl. 
II fig. 9 and 10. 
